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Better NoteCard Handling

Glib Harbinger
Registered User
Join date: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 4
03-07-2006 12:26
Notecards can be a great way to communicate with SL friends who are currently offline. You can drop a notecard on their profile and have it delivered to them to be read later when they log in.

The only problem is that when notecards are delivered this way the User Interface quietly files them away in inventory with no notification. Most times the recipient isn't aware that you tried to communicate with them until days later when the might discover an unexplained Notecard in their inventory.

I think that when a notecard is delivered to an account that is currently offline the recipient ought to be notified of that fact when they log in. I propose a dialoge box that states the notecard's filename and the sender and has three buttons: [Accept]: Puts the notecard directly in inventory. [Delete]: Throws the notecard away. [Open Now]: Opens the notecard.

One of the things that makes email so useful is that the recipient can read and respond to it at their leisure without having to be present when the email is sent. This kind of asynchronous communication is missing from SL, other than IM's which is a very clunky way to do this kind of thing.

Let me know what you think.
Persial Hebert
Crashlander
Join date: 28 Sep 2005
Posts: 33
03-07-2006 12:36
I think... I'm amazed that notecards aren't handled just the same way as all other inventory already, that's what I think.

What else doesn't notify you when you get it when you're offline?
Osgeld Barmy
Registered User
Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
03-07-2006 12:54
money

if i drop money from person to person it has a little dialog "dude has paid you xL$"
but if it comes from an object it says nothing, i had a renter for almost 2 weeks before i noticed =/
Nargus Asturias
Registered User
Join date: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 499
03-07-2006 18:55
textures and photos?
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